The Role of Playing Video Games on School Achievement

Sa？etak The subject of the present research was the possible effect that playing video games can have on students. The focus is on the role that playing video games can have on school grades and school achievement in general. Problems in the research of effects of video games were outlined in the paper. The paper also presents the results of previous research of the impact of video games and often other media on school achievement. Elementary schools and high schools students participated in the present research. The results are generally as expected considering previous studies, and certain positive effects were observed, such as the fact that students who play video games achieve better overall success when compared to students who do not play games at all